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Relevant chapter: Corpus Hermeticum vs Full Hermetica
you that like oh this is like a very abridged version. The hermetic is enormous. The corpus hermeticum is just is just a part of the hermetica. Corpus hermeticum is not the whole thing. As a matter of fact it's a relatively small section of the hermetica because the hermetica it consists of the theoretical and the practical right the philosophic and the and the the the technical. So you have the philosophic stuff, you know, talking about the nature of the universe and the divine mind and how,
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Relevant chapter: Practical Hermetica & Magical Texts
papyrie and that's like technical stuff astrological magic I'm pretty sure the picatrix fits into the yeah picatrix is definitely in the uh the practical hermetica right because and that that was you know gay I'm pretty sure that was written in the 900s in Arabic, but it was a it was a collection. The same way agria collected all these works and put them into the three books, um you know, uh the the sage who wrote the Pikatrix um did the same thing just I'm collecting all the wisdom of of of this, you know,
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Relevant chapter: Beginners in Occult Study & Misconceptions
I mean I just I just did a fullcale investigation of the corpus hermeticum uh some of the technical hermetica uh in in whatever is available from the Perso Arabic um most of that stuff's in there you know um even like the hermetical diagram you know uh in the um I want to say it's in the chrisapoa um that that sort of I I would say it's like a henistic era uh manual of of alchemical hermetic uh diagrams right that the oraorus that says entopan that's the all I mean so that's where they get that title um you
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Relevant chapter: Ammonius Saccas & Origins of Neoplatonism
So, moving into some neoplatonists. Start off with Ammonius Sakus of Alexandria, I guess. Uh, he's like the precursor of Neoplatanism, if I understand correctly, and the teacher of Platinus. Um, some writers have stated that Ammonia Socakis was a Christian but then possibly conflated that with a different ammonia of Alexandria who wrote biblical texts. I wanted to get your opinion on if you have any opinion on that. Um, well, yeah, Ammonio Sarakus is technically the last of the the middle platonist and he essentially is is
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Relevant chapter: Origins & Transmission of the Hermetica
big things for me. Uh so okay some of the I don't know if you have any insight into this but you know I know I'm aware that uh what's his name um was it was it Fino under Medici that had brought into some of these things but as far as like the original documents containing things like the the divine pymander as a text are do or do we know who had originally authored >> those works? No. >> No. >> We we we I think I'm pretty sure what we have most of the of the corpus formatum
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Relevant chapter: Origins & Transmission of the Hermetica
that was translated into Latin. I I believe again like this information has entered into my brain but whether or not it it's able to find uh room and board there permanently is you know that's a different subject but I'm pretty sure that they were in Arabic >> um when when Ficino translated this stuff. So it would have been you know Coptic Attic Greek those type of things would have been the original source documents most likely. Um but uh they're they're all attributed to
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Relevant chapter: Authority, Attribution & Esoteric Legitimacy
that's a quote I'm pretty sure from uh from on the mysteries. >> Yeah. And then so think like in terms of timelines something like the Hermetica at least the original source documents versus something like um like the book of coming forth by day are those pretty much around the same time frame that we would have >> well the thing is that the hermetica is massive the you know you get the like theer penguin version that's like this big fits in your pocket. Yeah. >> Um it's like they don't they don't tell
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Relevant chapter: Corpus Hermeticum vs Full Hermetica
you know, um, the temptation of the material corrupts the soul and binds it. Here again, you'll find that in any number of of of theoretical or philosophical hermetic texts from specifically from the corpus hermeticum. It's not unique to Plato, you know, it's or or the Platonist. This [ __ ] has been said over and [ __ ] over. nobody wants to hear it in but um you know then you have other you know works within the hermetica and then you have the practical hermetica which involves things like the the the Greek magical
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Relevant chapter: Practical Hermetica & Magical Texts
the astrological magic and talismanic magic and I'm putting it all here for you. And I mean, they're incredibly similar. >> Yeah. So when it when it's said that Plato derived much of his knowledge from Hermes trismistus uh would that make plausible sense at this time frame that he would have had access to any of those? >> No. No. >> Because Plato Plato did not exist contemporaneously with Hermes Trist Majistus. Plato lived um Plato lived I'm pretty sure three to 400 years before uh
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Relevant chapter: Astral Light, Imagination, and the Body of Light
talking about the imagination, the imaginal realm. We're no longer referring to to the nephesh, the the body of light as the astral. >> Okay. I think yeah, there's this part I wanted to read. I'll go ahead and just read it and ask my question. Um, says the means of perceiving and working with the subtle manifestation of the astral light is by means of the imagination. Like you're saying, by this term, a trained imagination is intended and trained in dedication rather than in technicality.
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Relevant chapter: Beginners in Occult Study & Misconceptions
you know, or or something like that. I want to command spirits. I'd rather have them come into my group than somebody's like, "Uh, I'm here to study the texts, you know. All right, get out of here." So, it's like that that's the whole thing. And the cabalion um it starts opening you up, I think, to to some of these ideas. It's not >> it's not hermetic in terms of like let's include it in the hermetic literature. It's inspired by the hermetica, though.
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Relevant chapter: Golden Dawn grades and the Tree of Life
with the the sephirot on the tree of life, right? So technically like thing that a lot of people don't realize is that the golden dawn even though it's a succession of grades is divided into degrees. the outer order comprising the Neophite, Zelada, Theoricus, Practicus, and Philosophus. Four of those are on the tree of life. You technically when you become a neopight, you're not you have not stepped foot onto the tree of life. You're not in an elemental grade as we call them in the outer
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Relevant chapter: Golden Dawn grades and the Tree of Life
basically. But just as an extra piece, those first four four elemental grades plus the probationary grade of Neopight comprise the first degree of the Golden Dawn system. And then from there you have a portal portal degree which is again a probationary degree where you're in between uh Sephiro. You're not on you're not technically on the tree anywhere. You're you're you're basically placed between certain paths on the tree, but you're not in a sephiro in a sephiro. That portal degree, that portal grade is
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Relevant chapter: Elemental grades and advancements
the Earth tablet there. >> What What is an advancement? >> So, you're only initiated as a Neoight. you're then advanced um actually technically you're initiated as a as a neoight and then you're also initiated as a salad and then the rest of them are advancements which means you're moving forward you're moving on but there's there's a different connotation to the word initiation than there is uh to advancement. So each grade is not an initiation. Most of the grades are advancements.
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Relevant chapter: Agrippa, Renaissance magic, and occult philosophy
and 1480 translates and publishes maybe 1440 and 1480 I can't remember but in that block of time those like 30 40 years he translates and publishes the entire works of Plato the entire extant works of Aristotle the works of Platinus Pfury Proclasicus um and the entire corpus Hermetica So now all that shit's just here. And uh and then you have Cornelius Agria Heinrich Cornelius Agria von Netishheim. You have him calling all this stuff, looking at it, looking into it. And not only that, but
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Relevant chapter: The ankh and the key of life
No have much to look forward to in regards of unveiling those mysteries. Um all right. So then Krooks an Shasta Krooks shast anasta. >> Uh yeah >> Krooks shasta >> just call it the ank. >> The ank >> the kransada is um obviously the ank. Now um there's lots of things I could say about it but what is prudent? It's the key of life technically. And rather than unfolding and give and saying things that technically I've, you know, I've taken obligations not to talk about, um,
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Relevant chapter: Briah as the creative world
how things get made, how they become. It's a hierarchy of becoming, of existence. And so, Bria would be technically um, I believe what you would consider the archangelic realm. Um and uh so a briatic manifestation is something that is um I want to say an individuated essence uh that is non-physical and has a specific kind of um simplified or rarified set of actions or potentialities. Uh, so it makes sense that they would say in like a in like a passive manifestation in Bria because you know
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Relevant chapter: Sacred words, vibration, and creation
are further corresponded to the four elements. Technically the kerobam and the four elements are the manifestation of the four worlds in materiality. The four-fold nature of of you know the plan or design of of God. So um but they they also uh according to the Cabala unveiled relate to um the 231 gates which are essentially permutations of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. And he doesn't really go into great detail about how to use them or how they're used. Uh but um again to me it it it kind of betrays
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Relevant chapter: Sidereal astrology and ritual accuracy
for magical operations, you have to find where that planet is in the sky and you have to face it typically. Um, at least know where it is so you can you can direct your working toward it. Uh, and there are certain techniques that you can use that are really interesting. Now if you don't do something in a proper timing, my experience has been that it's not that things will technically go haywire. I mean there are other attendant things like let's say if you do cuz because you got to be pretty you got to be specific
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Relevant chapter: Jewish calendars and lunar cycles
system or is it primarily Henistic or I mean this is aside from like alchemical operations obviously. But yeah, that and then um you know kind of the uh your opinion on like Henistic uh system versus versus the uh like Jewish uh calendar system. >> I I don't I don't technically see them as antagonistic because the Jewish calendar system is is based on a on on on lunar cycles, right? So the first the first full moon is is the beginning of the month, right? And that's the origin
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Relevant chapter: Aurum Solis and the Ogdoadic tradition
text at least in regards to where a lot of this information is derived from. So I was wondering if you could speak to that particular text, maybe some of the history, any of the context around it, like what it what it is, what it covers, things along those lines. >> Yeah. So the Oram Solus is one of those technically so it's called the Ogdoatic tradition. Um and they work based on you know um the the ogdoatic schema of of the hellenistic you know the planetary agad. Um uh it was started in 1890s I think 1897
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Relevant chapter: uh you know interpreter and mystic writes these things down
uh you know interpreter and mystic writes these things down and and essentially creates this this Zoharic tradition which is which is the beginning of of real cabalistic uh exedigesis. Now there's one other text called the sephriets and that's extremely there's and technically there can be a third one the sephra the book of illumination or book of brightness. The sephriets is the book of formation, the book of of creation really. And it basically it's a it's a shorter treatise than the
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Relevant chapter: sun, you know, it's technically the um the sun at
sun, you know, it's technically the um the sun at its at its zenith, you know. Uh but um in terms of the arrangement of of the angelic powers, it all depends on what you're what you're what you're doing um and how you're viewing this stuff, right? Because the thing is the you you talk about the quinnences and you talk about um you know the decanss and things like this you talk about the shem you're essentially talking about again the permutation of letters that's I mean
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Relevant chapter: Alchemical symbolism and historical debates
principle to with an alchemy. But like in this you clearly see salt, sulfur and mercury in the center and the salt um that salt symbol is used throughout these and it's pertaining to alchemy. And I I think I might be wrong but I think that Raymond Lul was before Pariselus. >> Huh. So that's >> might have been I think he died in the 1300s. Paraselus was what 1500s? Let's see. >> I I think I think Paracelis was technically like right at the beginning of the Renaissance, right?
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